T16S R13E S17 16 20 21 COR - Deschutes County, OR
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Cooke17513
N 44° 10.886 W 121° 11.017
10T E 645183 N 4893628
PLSS section corner set by Deschutes County Surveyors Office, W.C. Kauffman in 1995
Waymark Code: WMK59R
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 02/15/2014
Views: 1
From the US97 exit in Redmond, continue generally SE on SW Airport Way for about 0.2 mile. Turn right on SW 19th Street and continue S for 0.9 mile. Park and walk about 1.0 mile generally SSE on an unmarked dirt road. Turn right under the E-leg of the Bonneville Power Administration transmission line. Following a fence line but still on a dirt road, continue S for about 1.4 miles and arrive at the NW corner of T16S R13E S16. Continue S along the fence line for 1.0 mile to the corner.
Type of survey mark: 3-1/4" brass cap on pipe in a collar of stones; rising 4"
What indicators are near the mark to help people identify where it is located?:
The section corner is just outside the SW corner of a smooth wire fence that encloses T16S R13E S16. There is an orange Carsonite witness post with a SURVEY MARKER decal. Found four western juniper bearing trees, two on private property. The others each had a nail and washer and a face blaze. The juniper described in the original 1880 survey is blazed and scribed. Based on field measured GPS UTM grid coordinates, this corner bears S1.4°E from WAYMARK WMK56E, 5267' distant.
What property is this mark defining?:
Survey history is found in Deschutes County Surveyors Office, Oregon Corner Restoration Record No. 1329.
Land NE of corner is private property owned by Pronghorn, an Auberge Resort; else Bureau of Land Management.
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